What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site?
How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa? (Hint: South Africa’s country code is .za)
How do you find the history of any given Web site?
How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle?
How do sites get to the top of a result list in Google?
Use the information and links below to learn about web literacy.
This search request looks for a search phrase on a .gov type domains.
Understand a URL so you can read it for domain name and truncate for further information
Web Literacy checklist
Alan November's Web Literacy site:
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How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa? (Hint: South Africa’s country code is .za)
How do you find the history of any given Web site?
How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle?
How do sites get to the top of a result list in Google?
Use the information and links below to learn about web literacy.
This search request looks for a search phrase on a .gov type domains.
Understand a URL so you can read it for domain name and truncate for further information
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/
The video on right shows how the URL can be truncated back to the research section and then the main archives.gov page.
More about URL, Host, and Domain Search Comandshttp://www.altavista.com/help/search/help_news
A list of common domain types: http://www.altavista.com/web/domains
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